Improvement in painters  palettes



0. LE ROY ANDREWS.

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UNITE-D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OSCAR LE ROY ANDREWS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAINTERS' PALETTES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,522, dated July 2,1872.

Specification describing a new and useful Improvement in PaintersPalettes, invented by OSCAR LE RoY ANDREWS, of Boston, in the 7 countyof Sufl'olk and State of Massachusetts.

This invention relates to palettes for holding paints, brushes, &c.,which may be attached to any suitable fixture for facilitating theoperation of painting or lettering on signs,

windows, &c.; and it consists in adjustable jaws and adjusting-screws,in combination v tom view of thesame.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the palette, which may be either wood or metal and of the ordinaryform and size. B is a socket-plate, attached by means of screws to theunder side of the palette, with a setscrew, C, therein. D is a jaw, theshank of which passes through the socket and supports the two adjusting-screws E and F, upon which screws in a movable jaw, H. The screwspass through this jaw H and engage with screwthreads therein. One orboth of the screws is secured in the jaw D, so that when the screws areturned the jaw H will be carried toward or from the other jaw, whichallows the palette to be clamped to the sill of a window or anyconvenient fixture, as seen in Fig. 1. The jaw D has a round shank, sothat the clamping-jaws and screws may be turned in any direction to suitthe fixture.

This palette may be used without the clamping-jaws, if desired, like theordinary painters palette, but it is designed more especially for signand ornamental painters.

When the jaws are clamped to any fixture the palette is held in positionby the setscrew C. I

Variations may be made in the form of the clamps and screws and mannerof attaching them to the palette, and the palette may be used for otherpurposes without departing from my invention.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. In combination with a painters palette,

the socket B, set-screw C, jaws D'and H, and

screws E F, or their equivalents, when arranged substantially as and forthe purposes described. 2. I claim, also, a painters palette with asupporting apparatus attached thereto, substantially as shown anddescribed.

OSCAR LE ROY ANDREWS.

Witnesses:

F. LEWIS BARROWS, HENRY J. KUHLMAN.

